The Dark Knight Rises Bane

[Paste Pot Pete]

There really isn't a single person I can think of that has the size, voice, and acting capabilities.

I would toss my hat into the "dub another voice over a wrestler" pool, but I'd have to assume that a fully fleshed-out movie Bane would have to remove his mask at least once during the film, so that would make that idea a little harder to pull off.

 

[Matt.S99]

Rodrigo Santoro (Xerxes from 300). They can make Bane a tall, linger dude. Than CGI the muscles.

do you actually know what Santoro looks like? I think it would be much easier and cheaper to just get someone naturally big than making a skinny guy big

 

[BatJokerFace]

Bane would enable Batman's redemption -- in his eyes and in the eyes of Gotham. Bane's only reason for existing, in a sense, would be to challenge Batman for the right to rule Gotham's darker side.

Imagine a scene like this...

EXT. WAYNE TOWER, NIGHT

BATMAN is thrown from a rooftop nearby, his armored body crashing into a vendor in the street. He gasps, clutching his abdomen.

BANE leaps from the rooftop. He stands over BATMAN.

BANE: You're finished. Weak, pathetic. Look at you - you've given me Gotham. I own Gotham.

BATMAN (gasping for breath): You don't own Gotham... you're just a common criminal!

BANE kicks BATMAN in his bleeding abdomen. Picking him up, BANE hurls him with all his strength into a brick wall. The fight continues unabated with Gothamites beginning to crowd around the scene.

BANE, noticing the crowd, lifts his arms triumphantly and begins to speak.

BANE: The vigilante is mine. I've destroyed the vigilante!

Suddenly police cars pull up, their sirens blazing. COMMISSIONER GORDEN steps out, his gun drawn. DET. RAMIREZ is behind him, hers also drawn.

GORDON: Bane, back away from the Batman!

BANE, laughing: What, do you want me to deliver him on a platter? Have I not done what Gotham asked?

BANE kicks BATMAN again, causing the dark knight to groan with pain.

A child from the crowd steps forward, but his mother, clasping his hand, will not let him move closer.

CHILD'S MOTHER: Stop it! You're killing him.

BANE kicks BATMAN again.

A man from the crowd steps forward now, his hands clenched.

MAN: Stop it, now!

Other people in the crowd begin clamoring for BANE to back away. BANE looks around, mystified, as it grows louder, more overwhelming.

BATMAN looks up, grimacing through his blood, and says: They don't want you, Bane. They don't want this.

BANE mutters: I don't care about what they want. I want Gotham. I will have it once I kill you.
...


And so on and so forth. Thoughts on how Bane could help redeem Batman?

 

[spideymouse]

I think Bane would be a great choice as BB3's villain...

He's an awesome criminal mastermind with brawns to boot, and he totally needs to be redeemed from the stinking pile that was B&R.

I don't know if your specific script is "why Bane should be the villain," but I do see the concept behind it, and I like it.

 

[BatJokerFace]

Well, thanks! If redemption is the theme for BB3 (and it should be), Bane is the perfect villain. I imagine a scene not unlike the one in Spider-Man 2 when New Yorkers protect him from Doc Oc.

He's also the only villain, if done correctly, who could upstage The Joker in TDK.

 

[Infinity9999x]

Well, thanks! If redemption is the theme for BB3 (and it should be), Bane is the perfect villain. I imagine a scene not unlike the one in Spider-Man 2 when New Yorkers protect him from Doc Oc.

He's also the only villain, if done correctly, who could upstage The Joker in TDK.

Personally I don't think any villain could upstage the Joker, nor should they try to. Bane would be a different kind of character, he wouldn't have the manic energy or presence the Joker had. He would be delivered differently, because he's a different kind of villain.

 

[BatJokerFace]

I completely agree - that's why Bane is so perfect. He wouldn't have the manic energy. He would be more the brooding type, with a heavy Latin American accent.

 

[ChelseaGrin]

My friend and I were actually talking about having Bane in the third movie. I said that it might be good to have both Bane and Catwoman, someone to play with Bruce's physical strenght, and mental strenght. Also I want to see Bane talk, everyone I know thinks Bane can't talk with well grammer considering Batman and Robin ruined the character. The best Bane I've seen is the batinthesun.com Bane and their fan film "Batman Legends".

 

[Infinity9999x]

My friend and I were actually talking about having Bane in the third movie. I said that it might be good to have both Bane and Catwoman, someone to play with Bruce's physical strenght, and mental strenght. Also I want to see Bane talk, everyone I know thinks Bane can't talk with well grammer considering Batman and Robin ruined the character. The best Bane I've seen is the batinthesun.com Bane and their fan film "Batman Legends".

I think Bane and Catwoman would be a great idea. I actually wouldn't mind throwing in Riddler. You could have Bane and Riddler work together to try and tear down Batman, with Catwoman being the femme fatale

 

[AnorexicBatman]

HELL YEAH!
I would love it if they show bit of his backstory ala "Bane Of The Demon"
Hell, it could even be said that Talia after some consideration accepted him as her mate

 

[Majik1387]

No.

 

[AnorexicBatman]

DUDE! The Bane we are talking about is not just some thug.
He's super intelligent as well, like on Batman's level
The guy has learnt several obscure languages, knows fencing, is an accomplished wrestler, marksman and plays a killer game of chess (lol!)

 

[Superboy-Prime]

bane
hush
the riddler
catwomen

hard choice

SB-P

 

[Nepenthes]

Set half the film in Santa Prisca? I think that would be amazing

Making Bane the benevolent dictator of his island home would be great way to continue the themes of TDK. Batman busts up some Santa Priscan smuggling operations in Gotham, which upsets the SP economy and the fragile balance between warring militias, industrial factions and cartels. This makes Batman a problem for Bane.

Bane is what Batman would be if Bruce had the balls to take all-out control of Gotham city. Bane runs a whole country in his iron grip; he laughs at Batman because he thinks he's weak, foolish and gutless. Bane therefore is the better protector, while Batman hides in shadows, meddles inefficiently, chases his own demons and wallows in blame and guilt like some kind of self-pitying martyr. Pathetic. A barely grown boy playing dress-ups in the night.

Things come to head when Batman, recklessly, travels to Santa Prisca to put a permanent end to operations that affect Gotham. Baaaad move. He sneaks in and out like a slithering rat. Bane on the other hand does not operate like that. When he finds out he travels to Gotham as an official head of state and demands the government hand over Batman. When they do not, or cannot, he has no other recourse but to take him down himself with his own highly trained men, his own plans and cunning, and finally his own two fists. This would be a great movie, and very different for Batman, which is what we need.

 

[marukisu]

Why is it that everyone has suddenly jumped on The Bane Bandwagon? Hes not that great of a character. The only people i can see in Batman 3 are Two face catwoman and The Riddler.

 

[Rikxiepoo]

Here is a simple reason as to why Bane should be one of the villains in the third movie: He can kick Batman's ass, so in terms of action they could up it in the third movie by having Bane and Batman in an epic fight.

 

[Doc Samson]

I guess Bane could work if they scaled his strength down (considerably) and perhaps changed his motivations. One of the main issues I've always had with Bane is the fact that he just wants to break Batman just to do it, making his goals somewhat similar to Joker. Although on a much bigger scale, Joker's ultimate goal is to break Batman's sanity through chaos and anarchy, Bane wants to just break Batman physically. I like the fact that he would be a hand to hand challenge like Ras was, and I also like how his skills were cultivated, much like the BB Bruce, through prison. I just think if they were to use him, maybe give Bane something more in his quest than just domination of the bat.

Maybe show some of the redemption Bane himself experiences through beating his addiction and actually helping Batman sometimes. Even the Legacy storyline would be cool, as it not only gives more than just Bane as a physical threat, Gotham itself can come under attack, not mention it could ties things back into BB with Bane (and I guess Talia since Ras appears to be gone) leading the League of Shadows into Gotham to finish what Ras started before. Things like that will make him more than just a 2-dimensional bad guy.

 

[luca_frontino]

I agree. He's the only one remained.
I mean, do you really want campy villains like Riddler, Penguin, Mad Hatter or meta-humans like Clayface, Man-Bat, Killer Croc...

 

[Gianakin_]

There's nothing campy about some versions of Riddler and Catwoman. And Penguin is a mob boss with a gimmick, so I don't see where the camp is.

 

[Sloth7d]

I'd prefer Deadshot over Catwoman, if Bane is in the movie. Since Batman's on the run from the law now, no doubt there's going to be a bounty on his head. Maybe Bane and Deadshot are both competing with each other to get that bounty before the other. Though it's still possible to squeeze Catwoman in as a premiere villain at the end as done with Two-Face. But either way, I'm against having three villains in a film. Too many villains has always resulted in disaster in past super hero movies.

 

[Landfill]

the reason why everyone is all for bane in the next film is because he is the only person who can take on the batman. and he would fit right in with the whole real take that nolan has established already. the mob tries one last thing to get the batman and thats bane. the mob wont trust the joker anymore because hes too reckless or he didnt get the job done so they try something else.

 

[Nathan]

I definitely support Bane. I always thought he'd fit in rather nicely in Nolan's world.

 

[November Rain]

Bane and riddler would be a perfect combo with the riddler exhausting him mentally and bane exhausting him with tatics and physical abuse,

thus nolan's batman would be able to then discover the benefits of prep time and become the true badass we all want him to be...and really really dark both as bruce wayne on his own and ruthless as batman (not just physically)

 

[Phoenix_Flare]

Bane would work in B3 since BB dealt with fear toxin and in TDK, Scarecrow was trying to sell his "drugs" or toxin...in B3 they could write Bane's character as a man taking some kind of super-enhanced steroid drug given to him by the mob(prays for Rupert Thorne)...I dunno just an idea...

 

[Kargo Warrior]

Set half the film in Santa Prisca? I think that would be amazing

Making Bane the benevolent dictator of his island home would be great way to continue the themes of TDK. Batman busts up some Santa Priscan smuggling operations in Gotham, which upsets the SP economy and the fragile balance between warring militias, industrial factions and cartels. This makes Batman a problem for Bane.

Bane is what Batman would be if Bruce had the balls to take all-out control of Gotham city. Bane runs a whole country in his iron grip; he laughs at Batman because he thinks he's weak, foolish and gutless. Bane therefore is the better protector, while Batman hides in shadows, meddles inefficiently, chases his own demons and wallows in blame and guilt like some kind of self-pitying martyr. Pathetic. A barely grown boy playing dress-ups in the night.

Things come to head when Batman, recklessly, travels to Santa Prisca to put a permanent end to operations that affect Gotham. Baaaad move. He sneaks in and out like a slithering rat. Bane on the other hand does not operate like that. When he finds out he travels to Gotham as an official head of state and demands the government hand over Batman. When they do not, or cannot, he has no other recourse but to take him down himself with his own highly trained men, his own plans and cunning, and finally his own two fists. This would be a great movie, and very different for Batman, which is what we need.

That really sounds excellent.

The more i think about it,the more i like the idea of Bane in the next movie.

He's as big as a threat as the Joker yet completelly different at the same time,i would argue even more dangerous for Bruce than Joker was...Joker was a bigger overall threat,to the city of Gotham but Bane could be more deadly to Batman...which at the same time makes him more dangerous for Gotham too,since no Batman=Gothamm in chaos.

That could be a very good idea...Bane to destroy Batman in a fight or something similar and Bruce barelly escaping.Then the whole city is happy that the murderer(Bruce) has been taken down,not knowing the danger that Bane posseses...and eventually he turns Gotham in to a war-zone and Batman while watching his city getting destroyed realises that he's Batman because he IS Batman not because...and then he takes Bane down and even though the city doesnt still trusts in him his reputation as a murderer is erased...or something along those lines.